The Reckoning

Morgan Shaw slips into the hold of a replica pirate ship at San Diego's Tall Ship Festival to escape a recent ex-boyfriend and his new companions. She expects to hide for a while, but she wakes aboard a genuine vessel three centuries earlier. Her wealthy father, she assumes, has arranged an elaborate performance to distract her from her upcoming chemotherapy. Maybe he has, or maybe not.

Rowan Dutton is a pirate chasing a fortune large enough to pay back a debt owed to his sister and restore the Dutton family name in British Jamaican society. He is one successful raid away from that goal when an unfamiliar woman turns up on his ship and costs him his quarry. Angry as he is, he finds himself captivated by the outspoken newcomer, her peculiar clothes and manner of speaking, and her insistence that everyone aboard is an actor in a staged show her father paid for.

The situation grows far more dangerous when she reveals Rowan's secret to an old rival. Their choices set off events that could cost both of them their lives and alter the course of history. The novel blends time travel, a swashbuckling pirate setting, and suspense with a Christian romance at its center.